Comparing the effect of cold and heat massage of the Hoku point on pain of needling arteriovenous fistulas in elderly patients undergoing hemodialysis
- Conditions
- pain.Pain, unspecified
- Registration Number
- IRCT2015051122210N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Kashan University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
inclusion criteria:being in ages of 60 years and over; being under regular hemodialysis; willingness to participate in the study; having no impairment in consciousness and vision; being able to communicate verbally; having no pain before hemodialysis session; not using any opiate or analgesic drugs at least 4 hours before the hemodialysis session; not having a known dementia; peripheral vascular disorder and diabetic neuropathy; lack of any inflammation bite or fracture on the massage location or the Huko point; and lack of any complications in the AVF (i.e. thrombosis; infection; aneurysm). The exclusion criteria were requiring more than one attempt to establish a needle in the AVF in hemodialysis session; a decision to withdraw from the study; the incidence of any problems in the Huko point; and occurrence of any local complications in the AVF (i.e. thrombosis; infection; and aneurysm) during the study.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain. Timepoint: Before and after the intervention. Method of measurement: Visual analog scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ocal complications, fistula. Timepoint: Before and during the intervention. Method of measurement: Check fistula.